Prince Charles's interest in organic farming and gardening

[Harry's polo shirt]

Originally Posted by Skydragon

For a guy born, as CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips puts it, with a drawer full of silver spoons in his mouth, Prince Charles often doesn't get much of a break.

Prince Charles: "Patron Saint" Of Organics - CBS News

i was thinking the same things that they wrote in the article

"It's not a passion he's come to lately. He didn't follow this trend, Phillips points out, he set it."

[Skydragon]

You've been making fun of Prince Charles for a long time now - the ears like open taxi doors, the fuddy-duddy mannerisms and marital missteps.

Rooted in royalty, organic gardening blossoms | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/03/2009

[Emeralds and Opals]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6539405.ece

"Prince was right: study shows talking to plants helps them grow."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/5586953/Prince-Charles-turns-Highgrove-into-a-green-haven.html

[Skydragon]

Prince Charles famously talks to them, but nobody knew they talked to each other - until now. Plants engage in self-recognition and can communicate danger to genetically identical cuttings planted nearby, according to professor Richard Karban of the University of California.

TG Daily (c) - Plants can talk, apparently

Women gardeners' voices speed up growth of tomato plants much more than men's, it found.
In an experiment run over a month, they found that tomato plants grew up to two inches taller if they were serenaded by the dulcet tones of a female rather than a male.

Women's voices 'make plants grow faster' finds Royal Horticultural Society - Telegraph

[susan alicia]

since it is not likely that the garden of Highgrove will be open for the public any time soon, second best vist the garden of Hanham Court, open for the first time this year. It belongs to gardendesigners Julian and Isabel Bannerman whose work can be found at Highgrove.
Hanham Court Gardens - Rural Manor house between Bath and Bristol

here is a bit of Highgrove:

http://www.bannermandesign.com/

[Skydragon]

AN 'edible communities' project pioneered in Todmorden will be presented to the Prince of Wales at a sustainability conference.
The idea, named "incredible edible communities", aims to increase local food with steps such as turning public flower beds into vegetable patches and supplying locally laid free-range eggs.

Prince Charles hails Edible Todmorden project - Yorkshire Post

PRINCE Charles was left in no doubt about the challenges of hill farming when he toured a 1,200-acre farm in Mid Wales last week.
Carnau Farm, at Llanddewi Brefi, has sustained four generations of the Davies family, who are determined to carry on their sheep farming tradition on the Cambrian Mountains

Daily Post North Wales - Farming - Farming News - Thank God for farming's youngsters, says Prince Charles

[ada]

I grow a few things organically in my garden and find I am trying to buy more and more chemical free food. PC can influence the 'big players' and I love him for it

[Skydragon]

Charles, Prince of Wales, voiced interest in projects of agriculture development in Bistrita-Nasaud county (north), this being one of the six counties included in the project called Carpathians initiated by the foundation of the heir to the British throne

Prince Charles, interested in agriculture of Bistrita | Financiarul

[Skydragon]

The Crop Protection Association has expressed dismay at recent comments by the Prince of Wales in which he questioned the impact of modern farming practices on the environment

Prince Charles under fire from pesticides industry

food security is the most basic necessity of all."

True, but surely only if it is not going to harm us and damage the grounds ability to grow crops in years to come.

[Russophile]

Originally Posted by Skydragon

The Crop Protection Association has expressed dismay at recent comments by the Prince of Wales in which he questioned the impact of modern farming practices on the environment

Prince Charles under fire from pesticides industryTrue, but surely only if it is not going to harm us and damage the grounds ability to grow crops in years to come.

It's money behind the criticism. Always is. . . .

[Skydragon]

Mandrake hears that the heir to the throne plans to question publicly the Food Standards Agency's conclusion that expensive organic food is no better for you than produce from intensive farms

Prince of Wales prepares for an organic dispute - Telegraph
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From what I understand, this report fails to take into consideration the effect of chemicals used by non organic farmers. So possibly, IMO, there are few differences in the nutrients, but major differences in taste and the benefits of not ingesting any chemicals. I know that on some farms/units, the Pigs are fed Copper to stop them gestating and Arsenic to keep the meat white, (my source is an acquaintance who owns a fattening unit)!

[ada]

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Prince of Wales prepares for an organic dispute - Telegraph

PC is right again